Youth group for gun control, formed after Newtown, announces meeting

NEWTOWN -- The newly formed youth activism organization, Second Amendment Sanity, today announced it will welcome teens to an evening meeting Monday from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Edmond Town Hall, 45 Main Street. Second Amendment Sanity is a youth-created and youth-operated nonprofit organization (501c3 designation in progress) seeking teens from all over the country who are dedicated to reducing gun violence locally and nationally through activism and education.

The meeting will offer an overview of the organization, introduce current officers, nominate officers for open positions, make committee assignments, discuss plans for the future and exchange ideas.

Jake Snyder, a 17-year-old homeschooled teen, was motivated to take action to reduce gun violence in America after the horrific school shooting in Sandy Hook Dec. 14, 2012.

"I got the idea to start Second Amendment Sanity because one of the performing arts teachers my family's homeschool group works with suffered the death of her 6-year-old son at Sandy Hook Elementary, and that just should not have happened. It's insane," stated Snyder. "Nobody should have semi-automatic weapons except the police and the military -- period. And even more people are killed with handguns every day, day in and day out. Gun violence is getting worse and worse, and it's time for all of us -- no matter how old we are -- to actually do something about it!"

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Just getting started, Snyder has set up a Second Amendment Sanity Facebook page and Twitter handle @2ndsanity, and the website secondamendmentsanity.org is in development. Currently, those who want to get involved can sign up for the SAS email list via the Facebook page or by sending a tweet with name and email address.